Pre-order Shoulders of Giants at the moment on the Xbox Retailer, accessible January 26
After virtually three years of growth, we’re overjoyed to announce that Shoulders of Giants is now accessible for pre-order. The sport will probably be launched on January 26, 2023, on Xbox! Take a look at the latest trailer above that includes a mixture of single-player and co-op mayhem.
One of many very first concepts we had once we began making Shoulders of Giants, was the silhouette of a smaller character using on the again of a a lot greater character. After which we thought, what should you might management each of those characters without delay? How would that work? Would that be enjoyable?
It took numerous experimentation and prototyping to search out the candy spot, and an expertise that felt contemporary but acquainted. We thought, what if we break up up varieties of fight between these characters, one character does all of the melee, and is an enormous highly effective mech? And the opposite character perched atop its again a small, nimble, gun wielding frog?
As soon as we discovered this mix, we knew we had discovered the core of the sport. The following query we requested ourselves was, what kind of world would these characters be in? What would their objective be within the recreation?
We’ve got at all times been big followers of science fiction, and knew we needed a world the place there was a darkish power these heroes needed to overcome, the basic theme of darkish versus mild. However how might we really take this theme and create an interactive means for the participant to expertise it?
We imagined after an intense boss battle having all the world remodel from barren and darkish, to vibrant, lush and vigorous in a cinematic means. We experimented with real-time methods the participant might do that, and located it to be enjoyable and thrilling and it turned a pillar of the gamers talents.
Talking of talents, the final core concept behind the sport was that we needed Shoulders of Giants to really feel like a colourful playground with an enormous arsenal of sci-fi devices and weapons for the participant to discover and tinker with.
Gamers encounter weapons and skills like a firework-shooting grenade launcher, an enormous stomping shoe, a surfable protect, and far more. The core fight is all about experimenting with completely different combos of apparatus to search out that incredible combo that retains issues feeling contemporary and thrilling.
Whereas fight is the principle gameplay pillar, we knew that we needed a narrative for the sport to happen in and for the characters and world to really feel grounded too. The forces of entropy have taken over the universe, it’s the gamers job to fight this darkish power and to revive order and steadiness again to the universe.
As you beat extra ranges and save extra worlds from the forces of entropy, you’ll construct up your warmth meter, permitting you to entry more and more tough ranges. As you go sure warmth thresholds, you’ll unlock particular story boss encounters as you make your method to the ultimate boss.
Alongside the best way, you’ll purchase new weapons for each Froggie and the heroic Robotic of the Galaxy in addition to new items of armor, XP to spend in your ability tree, and dyes to additional customise the look of your characters.
Whilst you can customise your individual frog and robotic with dozens of cosmetics which can be unlockable in-game, the 4 above can solely be acquired as a bonus for pre-ordering the sport:
This pre-order bonus contains 4 colour units, so that you and as much as three co-op pals can save the universe in type proper from the beginning of the sport.
Even higher, the sport is 20% off throughout this pre-order interval. For extra info, take a look at the sport’s retailer web page and official web site, or be part of our discord.
Shoulders of Giants
Shifting Items Interactive
$19.99
$15.99
Concurrently management a sword-wielding robotic and a gunslinging house frog in Shoulders of Giants, an explosively colourful sci-fi roguelike. Play alone, with a good friend, or as a part of a four-person workforce, chopping by means of waves of enemies on a quest to rescue the galaxy!
The forces of Entropy are spreading chaos by means of the celebrities, corrupting residing planets and urging on the warmth loss of life of the universe. Led by the psychic Owl, one scrappy workforce of house survivors are preventing to revive the steadiness. A mysterious mech! A sharpshooting amphibian! Collectively they need to minimize by means of waves of enemies and restore mild and life to the galaxy!
Pre-order the sport for entry to limited-edition dye units with particular visible results. Dazzle your mates!